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This summer my son, Xavier, is attending summer school. This isn’t the summer school I remember.
This program is taking place at McGary Middle School in Evansville, IN and is a service-learning project.
To say Xavier was unhappy about attending summer school would be a gross understatement.
He’s completed two weeks of “summer school.” He’s helped start a community garden, helped to build a greenhouse, used real world data from the Tri-State Food Bank to explore mathematical concepts, and researched childhood hunger.
He’s excited about completing these projects and about school, and I couldn’t be happier about this transition of attitude about his education.
His class has initiated a fund raising campaign running between June 25th and June 30th, accepting donations of food and money to go to the Tri-State Food Bank.
How you can help
- If you know Xavier or a student participating in “McGary’s Walk for Food Justice,” pledge a donation.
- Please post this to your facebook page, your twitter, re-blog it, e-mail it to your groups…. Spread the word however you can!
- Take a food donation to one of 3 locations:
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Evansville:
1300 North Royal Avenue
724 North Burkhardt
Newburgh
8300 Bell Oaks Drive, Bell Oaks Plaza
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At both Wireless Zone locations:
$10 off with a donation
Or
50% off Cellairis case with donation
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On behalf of Xavier, all the students and teachers at McGary, and the hungry in the tri-state,
THANK YOU!
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